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1 The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life http://www.ushmm.org

2 1933- 1945 Historical Context of The Holocaust

3 1933- 1945 http://www.ushmm.org

4 1933- 1945 Anti-Semitism

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9 1933- 1945 http://www.ushmm.org

10 1933- 1945 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor

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13 1933- 1945 March 22, 1933 Dachau Concentration Camp

14 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Dachau Gates

15 1933- 1945 April 1, 1933 Boycott of Jewish Businesses

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17 1933- 1945 May 10, 1933 Book Burnings

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20 1933- 1945 Night of the Long Knives June 30, 1934

21 "If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people." "It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot." http://www.ushmm.org

22 1933- 1945 Sept. 10, 1935 Nuremberg Laws

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26 1933- 1945 July 1938 Evian Conference

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28 1933- 1945 October 1938 Deportations Begin

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30 1933- 1945 November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht- “The Night of the Broken Glass” November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht- “The Night of the Broken Glass”

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33 1933- 1945 Sept. 1, 1939 WWII Begins: Blitzkreig: “Lightning War” Sept. 1, 1939 WWII Begins: Blitzkreig: “Lightning War”

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36 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF “The sole goal of this schooling is to teach them simple arithmetic, nothing above the number 500; writing one’s name; and the doctrine that it is divine law to obey the Germans…I do not think that reading is desirable.” --May 1940 Heinrich Himmler on Polish Education

37 1933- 1945 October 1939 T-4/Euthanasia Program “Mercy Killing” October 1939 T-4/Euthanasia Program “Mercy Killing”

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39 Slide taken from a Nazi propaganda filmstrip, promoting "euthanasia," prepared for the Hitler Youth. The caption says: "Mentally ill Negro (English) 16 years in an institution costing 35,000 RM [Reichsmarks]." __________ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org

40 1933- 1945 Summer 1941 Killing Squads: Einsatzgruppen “task forces or intervention groups” Summer 1941 Killing Squads: Einsatzgruppen “task forces or intervention groups”

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42 1933- 1945 December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

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44 1933- 1945 January 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference

45 Reinhard Heydrich, chief of SD (Security) Service http://www.ushmm.org

46 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF The Jews were seen as a problem to be taken care of, and so the solution to the Jewish problem was the code name of the Final Solution : To exterminate all Jews from the face of the earth. There were even plans to eliminate all Jews in the United States. The Final Solution

47 1933- 1945 Summer 1942 Deportations to camps and killing centers begin

48 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Concentration Camps-Jews were selected on arrival to either work or be killed in gas chambers. Killing Centers were camps with gas chambers where Jews didn’t go through a selection but were killed right away. Different Kinds of Camps:

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51 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Lodz Ghetto Deportation Station

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53 1933- 1945 1942 Camp Life… and Death

54 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Auschwitz I Guard Tower

55 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Auschwitz/Birkenau Entrance

56 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Auschwitz State Museum

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59 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Auschwitz/Birkenau Gas Chamber

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62 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Auschwitz State Museum

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64 1933- 1945 December 1944 Death Marches

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66 1933- 1945 January-May 1945: Liberation

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71 1933- 1945 April 30, 1945 Death of Hitler

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73 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Berlin: Hitler’s Bunker Map

74 Schaefer’s Personal Collection—Berlin: Above Hitler’s Bunker

75 1933- 1945 May 8, 1945 Surrender of Germany

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77 1933- 1945 October 18, 1945- October 1, 1946 Nuremberg Trials

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79 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 12- sentenced to death; 3- life imprisonment; four- 10-20 years in prison Innocent: 3 were acquitted Nuremberg Trial Convictions

80 1933- 1945 November 13- December 14, 1945 Dachau Trials

81 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 40 Nazi war criminals found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging Innocent: none Dachau Trial Convictions http://www.ushmm.org

82 1933- 1945 May 14, 1948 Israel: A New State

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84 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF 6, 000, 000 Number of Jews Murdered:

85 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Gypsies Murdered: 220, 000

86 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Handicapped Murdered: 200,000

87 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Polish People Murdered: 1,900,000

88 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Soviet Prisoners of War Murdered : 3, 300, 000

89 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Homosexuals Murdered : 15,000 (estimate only)

90 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Jehovah’s Witnesses Murdered : 2, 500

91 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Political Prisoners Murdered : 25,000

92 Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Number of Black Europeans Murdered : 1,000 (estimate)

93 1933- 1945 “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children, and to your children’s children.” Deuteronomy 4:9

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